81 - An Overdue Catchup

We may have been out of touch with you here for a while but we are far from idle. Various travels about the UK and the US, both solo and en famille, while Underground Garaging ultra-remotely made blogging difficult. We continue to concentrate on maintaining and improving our health aided by some excellent physicians in New York.



BREAKING NEWS: The Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra is back! You will recall "The Andrew Oldham Orchestra & Friends Play the Rolling Stones Songbook Volume 1," after many years out of print was finally reissued on CD in 1996. Our arrangement of "The Last Time" found its way into the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" and the global soundtrack of our lives. Its success whetted my appetite to make music under my own moniker for the first time in a long while.



So...a couple of years ago I got together with old mate and wunderbar guitarist Gary Lucas in Bogota to lay down tracks for "She's a Rainbow," "Play with Fire," and a versions of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" I'm more than chuffed with. "The Andrew Oldham Orchestra & Friends Play the Rolling Stones Songbook Volume 2" was born ! Gary and I go back to the days I lived in Connecticut and he and Jon Tiven were the young upstart sprouts around town. His work since then with the avant garde and experimental , with Captain Beefheart and Jeff Buckley has placed him on a solo road that only he drives upon.

Having cast our bread upon the waters, so to speak, a cast of talented friends came along to lend a hand: Elliot Easton, Christine Ohlman, Vashti, Rafael Atijas, Wyckham Porteous, Johnny Marr, Juan Galeano, Pablo Memi, Brett Smiley, The Chesterfield Kings, and Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals have made this a delightful excursion back to musicland. Oh, and Jerry Shirley took time out from his turn as Humble Pie memoirist to beat it out for me once again as he has so many times before.



MORE NEWS: I have edited the first two volumes of my autobiography, "Stoned" and "2Stoned," into one volume that is currently available in South America via Spanish translation. For those of you who read Spanish here are some links to the rather flattering coverage "Rolling Stoned" is getting in the Southern Hemisphere.

http://is.gd/3uRWTa

http://is.gd/CrgLsJ

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/radar/9-7111-2011-06-12.html

EVEN MORE NEWS:



For English readers I have completed an updated Rolling Stoned and it is available from the following sites:

Gegensatz Press

Amazon

Mobi Pocket

Smash Words

I am more than pleased with this edition. It is an updated version of my first two books, Stoned and 2Stoned - ten years is a long time and so much has happened to the participants of those books.

Wellness,
ALO

80-Reet Petite Tweet Song of the Week: Jackie Wilson - No Pity (In the Naked City)

reet petit tweet song of the week: jackie wilson "no pity (in the naked city"



and here's a live version of the song which i found on youtube:



enjoy!

79 - Reet Petit Tweet Song of the Week -Mick Jagger with Jeff Beck-Gangster's Moll

this is from a 1979 jam session featuring Jeff Beck doing an unfinished, unreleased Stones song...

Mick Jagger-Gangster's Moll by industryofhumanhappiness

78 - Reet Petit Tweet Song of the Week - Rod Stewart - Just Like I Treat You

Reet Petit Tweet Song of the Week: Rod Stewart during his Long John Baldry days doing "Just Like I Treat You"



Today is Rod's 66th birthday, and still working. Happy birthday Rod. In the video above, keep your eyes out for Kenny Jones dancing around a minute and a half in.

77- Reet Petit Tweet Song of the Week: Bob Dylan-Brown Sugar

Reet Petit Tweet Song of the Week: Bob Dylan doing his version of Brown Sugar live with his band in 2002.

Bob Dylan-Brown Sugar by industryofhumanhappiness

76 - Tweet Song of the Week: The Drifters - I Don't Want to Go On Without You

This weekend i will be doing a tribute to Bert Berns on my radio show. I thought it would be good to share one of the songs that I discovered on the new compilation "Sloopy Music 2 Presents the Songs of Bert Berns" as my Tweet Song of the Week.

This song is The Drifters doing "I Don't Want To Go On Without You" written by Bert Berns and Jerry Wexler in 1964.

One of the better Stereo Mixes that I've heard from the time.

Drifters-I Don't Want To Go On Without You by industryofhumanhappiness

75 - Tweet Song of the Week: Brian Wilson, Phil Everly and Bill Medley - In My Room

bill medley, phil everly & brian wilson doing a stunning version of the beach boy's "in my room"